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Biography

Leon Laulusa, Ph.D. in Management (Paris-Dauphine University), Chartered Accountant and Statutory Auditor, is Associate Professor in the Financial Reporting and Audit department of ESCP Europe Paris campus. He is an ITP alumnus of Kellogg school of Management- Northwestern University. His teaching encompasses financial accounting, audit, management accounting and control, management practices in China.

Professor Laulusa is currently Academic Coordinator for China at ESCP Europe.
His main research interests span from international financial accounting to the impact of national culture on firms’ management.

Alongside his teaching and research activities, Dr Léon Laulusa advises top management in strategic performance and finance issues in international environment. Previously, he was part-time lecturer at HEC business school, Paris-Dauphine University, the Institut National des Telecommunications (INT). He served as a Partner in the French consulting practice at Deloitte and was former Managing Partner of the consulting practice at BDO M&G for which he led various projects and consulting assignments in finance and audit issues at both national and international levels, and more specifically in Asian countries on behalf of large listed firms and governmental organizations like European Commissions and World Bank.

Current research

Pr. Laulusa studies the impact of cultural values on firm’s management, particularly, on management control, human resource management and financial accounting.

In this framework, he is currently doing a comparative study between the application of new Chinese accounting standards by Chinese companies and the application of IFRS by European firms.

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